“If Nigeria Makes The Mistake Of Bringing Back Buhari In 2019” – Fani-Kayode

“If Nigeria Makes The Mistake Of Bringing Back Buhari In 2019” – Fani-Kayode

A
NATION OF BELIEVERS

In
both 2008 and 2012, I warned the world and particularly Africa and the Middle
East about the evil of Barack Obama. No-one listened.

In 2011,
I warned the world about the consequences of removing Muammar Gadaffi for
Africa and the Middle East. No-one listened.

In 2015,
I warned the world and Nigeria about supporting and electing Muhammadu Buhari
as President of our country. No-one listened.

In 2016,
I warned Nigeria and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) about making Ali Modu
Sheriff National Chairman of our party. No-one listened.

In
2015 I told the world that Donald Trump would win the nomination as flag-bearer
for the Republican party and that he would go on to win the American
presidential election in 2016. No one listened.

In 2016,
I warned Nigeria and the world that Buhari’s health would present a major
challenge for the rest of his tenure. No one listened.

In
each of these cases, I have been proved right.

Now
I shall give two more warnings and whether anyone listens to me or not takes
absolutely nothing away from me. Mine is to pass on the message and it is left
for those that hear it to accept it or not.

The
first is that if Nigeria makes the mistake of bringing back Buhari in 2019 that
will be the end of our country as a viable, cohesive, tolerant, medium-power
democratic nation-state where the rule of law, the principle of equality and
the most fundamental civil liberties, human rights and basic freedoms for the
individual are guaranteed and respected. Worse still, she may NEVER recover.

The
second is that if those of us in the PDP, Nigeria’s leading opposition party,
fail to make the right choices for the Presidential and Vice Presidential
ticket of our party for the 2019 election we will not only lose woefully but
the country will suffer the consequences of our abysmal error and lack of good judgment
for the next 50 to 100 years. In short, future generations of our people will
suffer for it.

Think
about that and let it sink in.

We
should stop listening to what those that believes that they are the gods of
Nigeria and those that we consider the “big and untouchable” men in our country
say.

We
should stop sheepishly accepting their self-seeking and self-centred choices,
we should stop allowing them to impose their will on our future and our nation
and we should stop following them like mesmerised and bewitched zombies.

Instead,
like the great 19th century poet William Ernest Henley counseled, we must be
“the master of our soul and the captain of our ship”.

We
must understand and appreciate the importance of the prophetic, seek the face
of God, listen to what He says, be guided by His leading and accept only His
choices.

The
result of our consistent subterfuge, ignorance, folly, and sheer obstinacies
over the last 57 years in Nigeria is that our people have suffered
immeasurably.

We
were once the giant of Africa but over the last two years we have been reduced
into a weak, impoverished and inconsequential vassal state made up of
quislings, cowards and slaves and whose people are bought and sold in distant
foreign lands for as little as $200.

Consider
what is happening to Nigerians in Libya and yet there are no consequences. That
is what we have now been reduced to: a nation whose people can be castrated,
murdered, enslaved, caged, bought and sold like cattle and whose organs can be
removed and harvested for ungodly gain and profit.

Nothing
can or will change until we get the right leaders. Nothing can or will change
until we reject the counsel and leading of the devil and his human agents that
hold sway in our country and instead listen to and courageously enforce the
counsel of God.

The
choice is ours.

Permit
me to conclude this contribution with the following.

I
watched a video of a press conference that President Nana Akuffo-Addo of Ghana
and President Emmanuel Macron of France gave a few days ago and I was not
surprised by Akuffo-Addo’s sheer courage and refreshing eloquence because I
have known him for at least 45 years.

In
his speech, which touched on the issue of African slavery in Libya and the
migration problem, he did not just do Ghana proud but the whole of Africa.

No
other African leader has been able to articulate the issue as clearly and succinctly as he did on that occasion and I urge every Nigerian to google the
speech on Youtube and listen to him carefully.

He
brings hope to a continent that is stark, dark, poor, weak, corrupt, cowardly,
self-destructive and plagued with tyrants, despots and ignorant and incompetent
leaders who delight in shooting down bright young stars, shattering dreams and
destroying the future and destiny of their own people.

Akuffo-Addo
is the exception and his words in that short press conference inspired millions
of black people all over the world.

This
is what happens when you have a brilliant, British public school-educated,
Oxford University graduate as your President.

In
that intervention he was profound, insightful and incisive and I am proud of
the fact that we went to the same prep school (Holmewood House in Langton
Green, Kent) many years ago.

He
attended the school a number of years before I did and went on to Lancing
College in Sussex and when I finished there I went on to Harrow School in
Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex.

The
only mistake he made was that he went to Oxford and not Cambridge but I guess
we can live with that!

I am
very proud of him and what he is doing for his people in Ghana. Even Emmanuel
Macron was clearly surprised and impressed with his foresight, knowledge and
understanding

Sadly
in Nigeria we don’t have people like this as Presidents and leaders.

Those
that I am referring to know who they are. These are men who play God and who
believe that they must impose their will on our nation and our people until the
day that they die.

Yet
thankfully all hope is not lost. We must not despair because our future and
destiny lies in our hands. If we make the right choices I have no doubt that we
shall achieve our full potentials and take our rightful place in the comity of
nations.

I
say this because despite all our challenges and mind-bending viscititudes and
in spite of our dearth of good quality leadership, we remain a nation of proud
and noble souls and great and beautiful people.

Nigeria
is a lion. She is powerful and resilient. She is enduring, long-suffering, irresistible and irrepressible. She is more than a nation. She is an inexplicable monument of irreconcilable contradictions.

She
comprises of many countries all wrapped up in one awesome mighty mega-nation.
She is a life-force. She is both a tangible and an intangible entity all at
once. She is a living spirit and a powerful soul.

She
is the only country on the African continent that has a true identity and whose
people yearn for her when outside her shores. Everyone on the continent looks
up to Nigeria. She is their heart and their hope.

Even
if she is restructured or if she breaks up tomorrow and goes under a thousand
different names we shall still see ourselves as first and foremost Nigerians.
Nothing can take away the strength and essence of a mighty and roaring lion.

We
are many nations within a nation. We are a mega- nation of believers. We are
the pride of Africa, the hope of the black man and the beloved of the Lord.

We
shall endure, we shall excel and by the grace of the Living God, we shall rise
again.

“If Nigeria Makes The Mistake Of Bringing Back Buhari In 2019” – Fani-Kayode
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